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Work Types:

Subcontractor | Fabricator and Manufacturer | Material Supplier | Trucking | Professional Service | Broker

Subcontractor:

  • Works on the contract site
  • Furnishes and installs material (e.g., paving)
  • Removes or relocates material (e.g., excavation)
  • Has own equipment
  • Has own workforce
  • Has own management/supervision
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Fabricator and Manufacturer:

  • Alters products (e.g., shapes and drills holes in posts)
  • Creates products from raw materials (e.g., galvanized steel)
  • Operates a factory or plant that alters or creates products
  • Has its own equipment to alter or create products
  • Has its own workforce
  • Has its own management/supervision
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Material Supplier:

  • Regularly sells or leases products to the public
  • Owns, operates, or maintains a store, warehouse or other establishment that contains products
    • Products are bought, kept in stock, and sold or leased
  • For bulk items has own distribution equipment
    • May supplement distribution equipment by long-term lease agreement, not on an ad hoc or contract-by-contract basis
    • Bulk items are: petroleum products, steel, cement, gravel, stone, or asphalt
  • Has own workforce
  • Has own management/supervision
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Trucking:

  • Hauls material to contract site
  • Hauls material away from contract site
  • Hauls material within the contract site
  • Has own equipment
    • Must own and operate at least 1 truck
    • May supplement its fleet by lease/rental agreements
  • Has own workforce
    • May supplement with owner-operator
  • Has own management/supervision
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Professional Service:

  • May or may not work on the contract site
    • Example 1: project security (on the contract site)
    • Example 2: project safety plan (not on the contract site)
  • Provides a product or a service
    • Product example: project safety plan
    • Service example: project security
  • Has own equipment
  • Has own workforce
  • Has own management/supervision
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Broker:

  • Does not work on the contract site
  • Arranges or expedites a transaction between the prime contractor and a source of materials or services
  • Does not use own equipment
  • Does not use own workforce
  • Does not use own management/supervision
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